Jane Kenyon is another favorite poet of mine. Her poems are usually short often touching someplace personal within the reader’s own psyche: or at least this readers psyche. I love all three of these poems but the third poem presented here, titled Otherwise, strikes a melancholic tone that always resonates with me no mater how [...]
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Three Poems by Jane Kenyon
Posted in Literature, National Poetry Month 2008, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged Buscuit, Jane Kenyon, Otherwise, The Shirt on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Then I heard wings overhead
Posted in Literature, National Poetry Month 2008, Poetry, Writing, creative, tagged Jane Kenyon on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bat
I was reading about rationalism,
the kind of thing we do up north
in early winter, where the sun
leaves work for the day at 4:15.
Maybe the world is intelligible
to the rational mind;
and maybe we light the lamps at dusk
for nothing….
Then I heard wings overhead.
The cats and I chased the bat
in circles – living room, kitchen,
pantry, kitchen, [...]
